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Whats the best way to add POI's?

cianr · 2007-12-27 16:21:47

Whats the best way to add POI's? Thanks! :)

27-12-2007 4:21pm

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cianr

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Whats the best way to add POI's?

Thanks!

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#2 27-12-2007 4:38pm

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A bit more information would be helpful !

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#3 27-12-2007 5:09pm

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Have you seen the sticky? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055066420

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#4 27-12-2007 5:49pm

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A bit more information would be helpful !

Well what i mean is whats the best way to go about adding custom POI's that we can all share? I was driving around today adding a few places and it would be good if we could all upload them somewhere and share.

Yep Ive seen POIHandler but it doesnt seem very straightforward to upload POIs - you have to put them all in a particlar group, then convert the file . . . Well i guess i could give it a shot just thought there might be a better way!

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#5 28-12-2007 2:05am

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All POIs, at least for garmin, are certain type of files. They can be opened in Excell to see what there like - but basically, as you described seems to be the only option for making your own. If you Google it, there are many sites like POIHandler which might offer a better alternative. The sticky I refered to has a link to another site. Google has lots

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#6 30-12-2007 12:55pm

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The Garmin ones are in CSV format. Basically it's just a standard text file that you can create in notepad or even DOS!

CSV means Comma Separated Values. In other words each line contains a POI with the data separated by commas, for example:

-6.4268, 57.2489, Home

Would be a standard enough line in a POI file. There's nothing else to it because all the info is there. Using Excel is a bit misleading because of the fact that it's just text and some people save the file as a worksheet and then can't figure out why the POI loader won't load it.

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